<p>Most people declare at the end of their sophomore years or beginning of their junior years. I declared after winter of my sophomore year. My primary score and biz-econ GPA were around 3.8.</p>
<p>Would it be bad to take economics second quarter instead of first quarter?</p>
<p>shoot not at all. i say take it slow. for one, its hard enough adjusting to college with worrying about your pre-reqs. secondly, most students who do not meet the gpa requirements of busines econ do so because of not having stellar grades in freshmen Pre Bus Econ coarses. Finally, it never hurts to take it slow to build up a good foundation(gpa, test taking, waking up for class) </p>
<p>brandnew, your doing it big. haha</p>
<p>yay!~</p>
<p>I was thinking about taking math 31A, chinese, and bioterrorism first quarter...if that last class is even offered anymore... Hopefully it'll be okay :/</p>
<p>Is it really true that drawing class is only for art majors though? Kind of off topic, but I'm rather sad about that :[</p>
<p>I'm with thrubeingcool, you should take it slow. My first quarter I took 3 GEs and nothing else, and it gave me a lot of time to adjust. It got me off to a good start, which I think is really important. After that I felt much more comfortable going straight through all my major classes.</p>
<p>ah, any ge's you recommend? :] & thanks for the advice guys, it helps a lot :]</p>
<p>Question for you guys:</p>
<p>Does EC 11 use calc mostly from 31A or 31B? And have anyone of you had a Professor Khitrik? S/he is the prof I'm considering for 31B (Lec 2) but has no reviews on bruinwalk. Also, when the registrar says "The Staff" is teaching Lec 1, does that mean the prof hasnt been decided yet? I have to choose between The Staff and Khitrik, and I can't go with Lec 3 (Prof Grossman) because his reviews are horrible. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah I'm in the same exact situation was passerby... I dunno if I should risk it and go with "the staff".</p>
<p>What you need to know for Econ 11 is how to integrate and differentiate multi-variable equations (mostly used to solve something in econ called Lagrangians). You don't do any work with multi-variable equations in either 31A or 31B, it's 32A stuff. However, you should be able to pick it up pretty easily, since econ 11 doesn't go very in-depth with it. What you do need to know well coming into econ 11 is all the basic integration and differentiation rules, and you should be able to apply them quickly and effortlessly. Everything else you learn in 31A and 31B pretty much doesn't apply.</p>
<p>Thanks thats good to know</p>
<p>Thanks for the info Brandnew. Since I get AP credit for 31A and 31B, do you recommend that I take any calculus at UCLA? If so which classes?</p>
<p>It's probably unnecessary to take any additional calc.</p>
<p>Since I took AP Calc BC in 11th grade (don't remember all the special rules), should I review calc on my own before econ 11 or is it pretty easy and I can probably pick it up during the class?</p>
<p>You said that econ 11 has 32A math and basic differentiating and integrating. So is that only 31A math (for the differentiating and integrating)?</p>
<p>You should be fine, the calc you need in econ 11 isn't really that extensive at all. I picked it up in (literally) about 5 minutes. You definitely don't need to know any special rules or things that aren't on the most basic level of integrating/differentiating. It isn't 32A math per se; it's just that you have to differentiate basic multi-variable equations, which you don't see in 31A or B but isn't that much different at all from solving single-variable equations. Alot of the math in econ involves optimization of equations--calculate the derivative, set to zero, solve for optimal. basic stuff.</p>
<p>to clarify: it's not really "32A math AND differentiating/integrating" that's required, it's "differentiating/integrating equations of the kind that you would see in 32A." But it's basic; you definitely don't need to take 32A to understand what's going on. It's probably stuff you'd learn on the first day of class in 32A, that's how basic it is.</p>
<p>That's reassuring. Thanks for all of your expertise, Brandnew2.</p>